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role of Girodias

...Life and Loves, 3 vol. (1923–27). Girodias, who took his mother’s non-Jewish maiden name during World War II, was unable to regain control of Obelisk after the war, and in 1953 he founded
Olympia Press. He quickly built a reputation for publishing books of merit that were censored or banned in other countries, including Vladimir Nabokov’s
Lolita (1955) and various works by...